Remembering World War II

Reeling from World War I, residents feel the impact of a new political party, the Nazis.

Revealing the heroic spies who helped contribute to victory in WWII.

Jeremy Clarkson tells the story of the Arctic convoys of WWII and their greatest disaster.

Amateur footage offers new insights into life in prewar Germany and during World War II.

The roadshow marks the 80th anniversary of VJ Day, hearing from those who were there.

A 70th-anniversary television event telling the story of the fall of Singapore in 1942.

80 years since VJ Day, Rachel Burden speaks to the last veterans of the Second World War.

Japanese and US veterans reflect on the 'kamikaze' attacks of World War II.

Eighty years after the first atomic bomb used in war, Jordan Dunbar hears from survivors.

A film that explores the human cost of atomic bombs used in wartime.

A reconstruction of the devastating impact of the first atomic bomb used in an act of war.

Witnesses recall the extraordinary 24 hours that would change the course of world history.

Griff Rhys Jones learns about the army of West Africans his father served alongside.

A political mastermind uses the sudden popularity of the Nazis for his own ends.

As the new year dawns in Berlin, the city is fractured and divided.

At the beginning of 1945, Berlin remains under the spell of the Nazi promise of salvation.

Lucy Worsley explores the lives of six real people who lived through the Blitz.

Historian Heike Görtemaker introduces an interview with Albert Speer, Hitler's architect.

AJP Taylor looks at Mussolini's career.

Simon Schama confronts the Holocaust as a Europe-wide crime of complicity.

A look at the life of Gordon Welchman, a codebreaker crucial to the defeat of the Nazis.

A documentary directed by Sam Mendes, reliving the liberation of Bergen-Belsen.

Using new evidence, historian James Bulgin reveals the origins of the Holocaust.

Following seven leading artists as they paint seven survivors of the Holocaust.